Patch 2.103 Changelist... Patch out this morning!

[Relic]

v2.103 10/31/2007

General

- Corrected a validation problem that exists on North American released copies of CoH: Game of the Year.
- Fixed an occasional crash that would happen on quad-core CPU's.

Gameplay

- Fixed a bug in the Infantry Combat System that was causing inconsistent application of priority system.
- Fixed a modifier in the church steeple that was enabling snipers to fire at drastically increased rates.
- Fixed British infantry invincibility when capturing and reinforcing heavy weapons (Machine guns, mortars etc.)
- Axis Knight’s Cross Holders have abilities arranged so that both Assault and Fire Panzerfaust are usable from the command panel.

[Kog]

Buggo,
please tell everyone at Relic thank you for their hard work on rolling out more patches, the attention to the game is much appreciated by players like me.

[Croner]

Good one, for the first try :P

I can't wait for 2.104
Nerf ze PE! Nerf ze Rangers! Nerf ze infantry blobbing shit!

[Nasse_Seta]

Well... I am slightly disappointed. Keep those patches coming though

[Gratuk]

keep em' comming

[Ap0k]

Stuck for a while. No whining about balance (despite the fact there don't seem to have been any balance changes) and stuff until you've played it a bit. If you're going to criticize, don't be a jackass about it, or your post will be deleted. The usual stuff really. Play nice kids

Thanks for the update Bugs.

[lordkosc]

Fixed a bug in the Infantry Combat System that was causing inconsistent application of priority system.

FINALLY!

[Melissia]

- Corrected a validation problem that exists on North American released copies of CoH: Game of the Year.

Yay! now to reinstall my game and see if it actually works with the GotY code...

[lance81]

So this would explain why the server seems to be down at the moment then. Happy Days!

[BlackOmne]

Fixed an occasional crash that would happen on quad-core CPU's.

Maybe this explains the numerous game crashes I've had lately. Nice to see it in there.

[chains]

- Fixed a bug in the Infantry Combat System that was causing inconsistent application of priority system.

So what does this mean?

[iNFERNO]

Thanks, good job!
Although there a lot of open items... looking forward to 2.104 (main patch).

Fixed a bug in the Infantry Combat System that was causing inconsistent application of priority system.

Can anybody exactly explain what in ICS has been fixed?

[lordkosc]

Yeah the ICS wasn't working at all, hence the reason many of us had squads of 5-6 men at 10% health...

It was even mentioned on Tales of Heroes

[deathblade]

I was hoping the sound bugs would be fixed, oh well.... good job!

[Pankake]

Has the CoH>Steam patching process been streamlined? Or are Steam users forced to wait 3-4 days still?...

[Luftwaffles]

Patched it, now lets see if I can get an automatch going

[dreddnott]

I wonder if the ICS consistency fix will make it feel more like vanilla CoH or the retail OF system.

Too bad they weren't able to snuff the vanishing voices bug or the simengine.dll crash.

Downloading now, 11.63MB...so about an hour.

[Mistenth]

There might be a balancing effect if the ICS works. PE reinforcement costs are pretty high and if they consistently take more casualities reinforcement costs + decrease in firepower might balance their blob.

Though if they go for all out vehicles then this won't help.

[Falaris]

Steam version is updated. Strange detail: It installed new version of directX and of visual basic 2005 service pack??

[Mikkow]

Not in changelog:

25 pounder accuracy bug fixed! I did several trials, supercharged and not, medium and long range (not short though). LOS and not.

Very accurate with LOS. Same as old (non bugged) without LOS. Canadian arty baby, here I come!

[Wargrim]

Wonderfull. After you failed to provide a working German version of the last patch over the ingame auto downloader, forcing every owner of a German version to reinstall the game and download another version of the patch from some game sites, now you release a new patch only in English and French, meaning that Germans and others can not patch right now, are on a different version and can not play online together with friends that have an English or French version.

Wonderfull. That is how you promote player friendships above borders of nation and language. Thumps up. Genious idea.

[natrapsmai]

Yay for a fix, even though it isn't what most of us were hoping for...

[AvD]

Well, seems most Europeans have been left out again.
Great work guys.

[butterflyz]

Axis Medical bunker is definitely fixed too!
Shouldn`t that be in the Patch notes too?

[emitchan]

errr.. i tot i heard abt arranged team patch? or did i read it wrongly?

anw, the patch is appreciated.

[Ap0k]

As far as I know arranged team is due to go in in a future patch. There wasn't any mention of it being in this one (at least, not as far as I'm aware).

[iNFERNO]

Ehm I did not receive any patch, why? I am on german version, but it logs in with v2.102 without a prompt to download the new patch...

[natrapsmai]

What's this about fixed medic bunkers?

[Melissia]

- Corrected a validation problem that exists on North American released copies of CoH: Game of the Year.

I confirm that this bug has indeed been fixed. The GotY vesion works perfectly fine now for me.

[wAwAn]

and where can I download it then?

[iNFERNO]

If you have the non-english version, you simply cant. It has only be released for english versions, as it seems.

[mukkel]

Hi everyone,

We have released the 2.103 patch today that remedies the installation issue for the CoH: Game of the Year Edition. The initial release of the 2.103 patch only includes English and French locales, with plans to release the remaining locales on Friday November 2nd, 2007. While searching for games online, please note that some games will show up as grey; the reasoning for this is because you do not have the same version of the game host. Thank you for your patience and continued support.

The Relic Team

[Mac_Bug]

After you failed to provide a working German version of the last patch over the ingame auto downloader, forcing every owner of a German version to reinstall the game and download another version of the patch from some game sites

Can someone confirm this? I don't quite recall ever reading this problem with the last patch on the forums.

[Catastrofizum]

Thanks Buggo and Relic. Was nice to see this one come though.

[Dr.Nick]

??? This patch is as worthless as the last one in my opinion...Hopefully it at least fixes the crashing issue I was getting every single game..I've had CoH since it came out and my friends and I loved playing it cuz it would never crash or anything, it was rock solid, then the expansion came along and messed everything up. Sure it was fun to use the new factions but then the balance issues..and if the mods tell me to watch my post or it will be deleted I will say they are being forum nazis cuz this has to be said! Spam spam spam is all the game is now, no custom maps work, you can hardly play as Americans anymore against other people, I mean cmon, do something to restore my faith relic, I miss my old CoH.

[para]

Can someone confirm this? I don't quite recall ever reading this problem with the last patch on the forums.

The incremental patch 1.7.1 to 2.101 never worked in the german version. Which is especially fucked up because the 1.7GB size of this patch and many downloaded it multiple times suspecting a download corruption because of the unhelpful error message when the patch fails. As far as I know no official fix or solution from relic for this problem. Fortunately the full patch works as intended.

Because of the low game count in the lobby and for ranked this new patch killed CoH for me until the german patch is released. Great job. Keep up the good work.

[dreddnott]

Medic bunkers worked in 2.102 but they had crappy range.

I just played my first 1v1 auto in 2.103, the ICS seems to working very well. I only lost entire squads to artillery, never to enemy infantry. Medic bunker gave me a few free Gren squads, but I wasn't paying close attention to the range.

[emitchan]

ya i think it fixed GOTY edition, it works for me too, hopefully. its still early to prove as it happens only after a few days, the valiating disc.

aww. i hope the next patch have some balances. and of cos, arranged teams please! relic!

[mitch044]

what about the connection issue???

[TheVOID]

Wait... Wasn't the Volksgrenadier rifle supposed to get buffed vs. Brits? Or is this still yet to come (later)?

[jonnyincognito]

Alright, I have the Game of the Year version that's messed up. My question is this, which patches and in what order do I need to install them? Was the GotY version shipped with patches in place or is it just a v1.0 with an extra booklet of art?

[ghosty_phil]

Is there an alternate patch download? the in-game auto update is not working

[Frink]

What does this fix even mean

Gameplay

- Fixed a bug in the Infantry Combat System that was causing inconsistent application of priority system.

[emitchan]

Alright, I have the Game of the Year version that's messed up. My question is this, which patches and in what order do I need to install them? Was the GotY version shipped with patches in place or is it just a v1.0 with an extra booklet of art?

My GOTY edition is shipped with 1.71, and as soon as u installed the game. i will b automatically patched to 2.103, provided u're a englishman. well, the thing is, make sure tat yr internet connection is alive when u load the game.

anw guys, does the patch have any improvement on performance? mm.. i feel strange.

[Susurrus]

Re: Quadcore crashes... OH so that's why my CoH keeps dying.. I just figured it was my system being screwy. Yay thanks :-)

[emitchan]

Re: Quadcore crashes... OH so that's why my CoH keeps dying.. I just figured it was my system being screwy. Yay thanks :-)

congras, i hope i'll get my Quads soon. heh.

[iNFERNO]

Mac_Bug

Can someone confirm this? I don't quite recall ever reading this problem with the last patch on the forums.

I can confirm this. Patch 171_2101 was broken in the german version. I think it is still broken. I reported this several times, even mailed to Buggo. I had to reinstall, and all other german players I know had to reinstall, too.

[InsaneDruid]

Great, Lanparty that starts tomorrow, no inet there and half the players have english coh and half have german coh.. and quadcores, that could need the fix..

really great

[Rankles]

Oh man that Sniper bug... I though the guy had ten Snipers in St Mere Du Mont when I came across that.

It fired like three times a second lol...

Nice patch, although the next is the big one.

[CroatNotBorat]

I've actually had my first CoH crash *ever* after this patch.

Played a 2v2, two players dropped. I quit, got the "defeated" screen, pressed the exit button... And blam, CoH crashed silently.